John Wilkinson Quotations

I saw a very good Southeast Polk team. They are coming off of three victories and one of those was at Ankeny.

I think we're getting better each game and tonight we closed the game better than we've been doing. This is the focus that we want to generate on a team with this much depth and I ask them to come to practice with the same attitude, to improve.

I think it's a great level of football. We beat up on each other playing every week. Two schools of thought here. You are either ready for the playoffs or banged up going into the playoffs.

We've been doing that all year long. We've had a lot of close games. You've got to let the kids play in that situation.

Over the last three days we have shot 250 free throws each. That was the thing I thought we had to do better at.

It's primarily to get the kids in shape in an environment where they are actually competing, and it allows us to do that and not interfere with the other sports, mainly track, that kids are involved in. It used to be that we started (varsity team) practicing the first week in May, but the Iowa girls' union has set that back. I think May 15 is our start date this year and our first game is May 31.

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The Girls Union did a great job of getting the best teams into the state tournament. The two conferences that deserve to be here got here.

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